"For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, says the Lord. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than our ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts." Isaiah 55:8
WHY? Following September 11, 2001 that question was asked a lot. It is easy to get frustrated when we try to "understand' everything that happens in our lives. Many a child of God has said, "I just don't understand." And you know what? That is ok. It is only natural to want to have a fuller understanding of bewildering circumstances. However, there are some things in life that God will explain later. For now, He just asks us to simply trust Him. There always comes a calmness and peace when we simply believe that our Father will take care of things. Read the verse above again. God is God and we are not.
Thought for the week: It is not always by plugging away at a difficulty and sticking to it that one overcomes it; often it is by working on the one next to it. Some things and some people have to be approached obliquely, at an angle. Andre Gide (1869-1951)
Funny for the week:
SPIRITUAL LAUGHTER - YOU MIGHT BE A PASTOR IF...
~ You've waded in a creek wearing a necktie. (For Baptisms)
~ You've ever dreamed you were preaching only to waken and discover that you were.
~ You'd rather negotiate with terrorists than the church organist.
~ You see a picnic as no picnic.
~ You've ever wanted to fire the church and form a congregation search committee.
~ You've been tempted to take up an offering at a family reunion.
~ You've ever wanted to give the soundman some feedback of your own.
~ You've ever wanted to lay hands on a deacon, and you didn't mean praying for him.
~ You often feel like you are herding cats instead of shepherding sheep.
~ Your sermons have a happy ending...everyone's happy when it ends.
~ You've never preached on TV, because your wife made you get down before you broke something.
~ You feel that it is your job to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.
Yelp, I know one of these, or two……………Chaplain Barnes
Last week’s answer: Who had a dream of a stairway or ladder leading up to Heaven? Jacob (Gen 28:10-12)
This week’s question: What did Jesus do when the disciples told him of the death of John the Baptist?.
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